The poor suffer in silence now, but Maitreya will show them that together they can demand the justice and freedom which is their right.

Without doubt, the greatest hindrance to change is the present state of mass
consciousness. The masses of humanity are deeply fearful of changes the outcome of which they cannot foresee.

Thus it is today among the community in which the Christ has made His abode.
Notwithstanding His presence and inspiring exhortation, relatively small are the numbers who act upon His
words and seek to implement change. Others listen gravely and nod assent, curious only to know who thus so
wisely counsels and entreats.

Perhaps the fear of deportation, inducing caution, conditions their response.
Perhaps they are not typical of the world at large. But seldom it is that one will arise and ask how to
proceed to change the consciousness of men.

Barriers

Fear of change is endemic in the human psyche. From earliest times man has
learned to resist, and has set up barriers against, inevitable change. Childlike, man has clung to the
familiar and the safe, whatever the pain involved and however short the term that safety might prevail.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the political field. Millions today live
in conditions of abject misery and abuse, exploited by tyrants masquerading as their leaders. Yet the people,
for the most part, suffer in silence, fearful that resistance will make the unbearable even worse.

Can humanity be persuaded to look on change with a bolder eye; to accept that
the ills of the world must be cured or man will perish? For how long and how deeply must men suffer before
taking action on their own behalf?

Maitreya's task will be to show men that their suffering is unnecessary; that
the remedy is in their hands even now; that together they are invincible.

He will show that the only barrier to freedom from fear is fear itself; that a
new world awaits its creation, based on justice and trust. When men see this they will support His cause, and
set in motion the changes which will renew the world. Gathered together in common Brotherhood men will demand
the freedom and justice which is theirs by right. Thus will it be. Thus will the institutions of the past give
way to the new forms, whose nature will allow the expression of the true divinity of men.

Buoyancy

That not all at first will welcome these changes is true. For many they herald
a bitter taste indeed. But gradually men will find that the changes are for the best, and a new buoyancy of
spirit will enter their lives.

Renewed and refreshed by the lifting of the burden of fear, man will tackle
anew the problems of our time, and set in motion a steady stream of changes which when completed will bedeck
this planet in a raiment of light.